Q&A: Trump succession, the most important PM and why politicians aren’t funny
The News Agents
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4.2 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Why aren't politicians funny anymore? Who is the most important Prime Minister in your lifetime? Will Elon Musk and Donald Trump's bromance last? And who will succeed Donald Trump?
Emily, Jon and Lewis answer the questions that we couldn't get to at our live show at the Royal Albert Hall.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.3 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | Hi, newsagents, big fan of the show. I listen every day and I saw you live last week, which was great. |
| 0:19.9 | My question is, why aren't politicians funny anymore? |
| 0:24.8 | I'm thinking back to David Cameron telling Corbyn to do up his tie. I'm talking John Prescott chining his pint. |
| 0:34.3 | Even Theresa May whipped out a robot. Why does it seem like the current leadership are just so humourless? |
| 0:41.6 | And is that a problem? |
| 0:42.6 | I never thought I'd have to say if David Cameron and Theresa May as being laugh a minute. |
| 0:47.1 | Yeah, the comic genius that was Theresa May. |
| 0:49.7 | Abbott and Costello. |
| 0:50.8 | Cameron and May. |
| 0:51.7 | I do think Cameron had good delivery. |
| 0:54.4 | I think Cameron and Osborne versus Cameron and May. I do think Cameron had good delivery. I think Cameron and Osborne versus Blair and Brown was excoriating. |
| 1:01.0 | They were vicious but quite funny and they did deliver their lines well. |
| 1:04.5 | I don't think that Stama thinks of himself as being a comedian. |
| 1:09.2 | I think he worked really hard at that Farage line, didn't he, |
| 1:12.2 | when he said, you've been in America so long I thought you'd be in the immigration queue. |
| 1:17.4 | I think he really works. That one was for you. The person who could do it was William Haye when |
| 1:21.8 | he was opposition leader. Not that it did him any good in terms of kind of any getting close to |
| 1:26.1 | unseating Tony Blair. |
| 1:30.1 | But he was very funny at Prime Minister's questions. Charles Kennedy was quite funny. |
| 1:31.1 | Charlie Kennedy was very funny as well. |
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